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Where do gas clouds feeding the Milky Way's black hole come from? Scientists may have solved the mystery

Stellar winds blowing away from a nearby binary star probably form the gas clouds.

Mysterious gas clouds near Milky Way's black hole now have a likely source

New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...

Massive binary star system may be feeding the Milky Way’s central black hole

A string of small gas clouds near the Milky Way’s central black hole has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, new observations ...

Scientists Challenge Black Hole Theory, Say Dark Matter Core May Lie At Centre Of Milky Way

Lead author Valentina Crespi explained that this dense dark matter core could bend light so strongly that it creates a dark region in the centre.

James Webb Space Telescope's strange little red dots may really be 'black hole stars', X-ray data suggests

Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to ...
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The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole

For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the central anchor point for the galactic disk and its surrounding ...
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Starbirth shuts down 40,000 light-years from the Milky Way's core — and astronomers don't know why

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

Shredded stars reveal how black holes ignite trillion-sun flares

Supermassive black holes are among the most enigmatic objects in the universe. They typically weigh millions or even billions of times the mass of the sun and sit at the centers of most large galaxies ...